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Institute for Regional Development

Institute for Regional Development

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Promoting social justice, supportive and resilient communities and increasing environmentally friendly mindsets is the goal of our transformation research at our Institute. By fostering relationships with the people in South Tyrol's valleys and other mountain regions and endowing citizens with responsibilities as our co-researchers, local knowledge and science combine to shape the future in a sustainable way.

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IRFGT 2024
IRFGT 2024Credit: Eurac Research | Annelie Bortolotti
2nd World Agritourism Congress 2024
2nd World Agritourism Congress 2024Credit: Eurac Research | Annelie Bortolotti
Agritourism India visiting us at the 2nd World Agritourism Congress
Agritourism India visiting us at the 2nd World Agritourism CongressCredit: Eurac Research | Annelie Bortolotti
Workshop "Literatur & Wissen(schaft)"
Workshop "Literatur & Wissen(schaft)"Credit: Eurac Research
1st World Agritourism Congress 2018
1st World Agritourism Congress 2018Credit: Eurac Research
Shepherdesses in the Alps
Shepherdesses in the AlpsCredit: Lifestockprotect Project | All rights reserved
Mountain areas
Mountain areasCredit: Krivec Ales | Pexels | All rights reserved

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24
Staff members
5 with a PhD degree
34
Ongoing projects
18 of them with international partners
7
Journal publications
30
Presentations at scientific conferences
11
Contributions to thematic blogs

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Research Groups

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  • Rural Resources

    Rural Resources

    In rural areas there is still great potential to use material and immaterial resources sustainably. To this end, we are working with local people to develop ...

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  • Human - Environmental Interactions

    Human - Environmental Interactions

    Human-environmental interactions can be defined as interactions between the human social system and the ecosystem. These interactions show how humans adapt to ...

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  • Space and Society

    Space and Society

    Our world is facing a series of unprecedented crises that relates to our economy, environment, climate and way of living. Our task is to accelerate the ...

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News & Events

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Collective accessibility impacts of rural public transport automation (RAAV Project)

Collective accessibility impacts of rural public transport automation (RAAV Project)

New scientific publication about the collective accessibility impacts of rural public transport automation within the RAAV Project

SERIGO Community of Practice (CoP) launch webinar

Event

21.11.2024

SERIGO Community of Practice (CoP) launch webinar

LIFEstockProtect Conference 2024

Event

24-25.10.2024

LIFEstockProtect Conference 2024

Fiumicina - Experimenting with the Sun

Event

20.06.2024

Fiumicina - Experimenting with the Sun

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Projects

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Project

SUSTANCE

Sustainable public transport solutions and innovative governance schemes for improving connectivity ...

Duration: - Funding: Central Europe 2021-2027 (EUTC / EU ...
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PlanToConnect

Mainstreaming ecological connectivity in spatial planning systems of the Alpine Space

Duration: - Funding: Alpine Space 2021-2027 (EUTC / EU ...
Project

BeyondSnow

Enhancing the Resilience of Alpine Space Snow Tourism Destinations and Communities to Climate Change

Duration: - Funding: Alpine Space 2021-2027 (EUTC / EU ...
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RETURN

RETURN - multi-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate

Duration: -
Project

Adaptation ST

Climate Change Adaptation Strategy South Tyrol

Duration: - Funding: Other Province BZ funding (Province ...
Project

LIFE WOLFALPS EU

Coordinated actions to improve wolf - human coexistence at the alpine population level

Duration: - Funding: 2014 - 2020 (Life+ /EU funding ...
Project

Agritourism

World Agritourism Platform

Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)
Project

NEST Part 2

Designing a Sustainable Food System in South Tyrol

Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)
Project

LIFEstockProtect

Improving livestock protection for the direct benefit of wolf conservation in the German-speaking ...

Duration: - Funding: 2014 - 2020 (Life+ /EU funding ...

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Institute's Projects

MAGAZINE Science Stories that Inspire

Un piano per la valle di Seren
video reportage

Un piano per la valle di Seren

“Se vogliamo preservare i pascoli, dobbiamo sostenere la pastorizia”
interview

“Se vogliamo preservare i pascoli, dobbiamo sostenere la pastorizia”

Una conversazione sulla protezione delle greggi e sulle sfide di una professione diventata ormai rara
Cibo in movimento – Il ruolo dell’ingrosso dell'Alto Adige per un'alimentazione sostenibile
ScienceBlogs
agriculture

Cibo in movimento – Il ruolo dell’ingrosso dell'Alto Adige per un'alimentazione sostenibile

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“A Montagne non succede mai niente”!
video reportage

“A Montagne non succede mai niente”!

Storia di una comunità di montagna che si fa protagonista del proprio sviluppo strategico
Gender
dossier

Gender

Definitions to better understand and data to envision change
Alto Adige: (dis)connessioni ecologiche
ScienceBlogs
regionalstories

Alto Adige: (dis)connessioni ecologiche

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